Bytes in the Margin

The more that a team can interact and iterate, the better you're final product can be.  In my ideal world, I'd skip a detailed wireframing exercise and get to building a prototype as soon as possible.  Its so much easier to explain what is difficult to build if there's something to click on.  Or you might ...

There's a lot of good insight in this blog post from the creator of the Views module for Drupal. I'm a big fan of the module, and when I've had to dive into the code behind it, I've come away pretty impressed. That's pretty rare for a Drupal module, IMNSHO. Also, if you don't understand or ...

Going from a consultant on the outside to a developer on the inside, I can't agree more that there's a lot more work to do once you launch a site.  Since we relaunched our website at work in March, there have been a number of things we've had to change based because of how users actually ...

The single easiest improvements you can make to the usability of HTML Forms is to correctly use LABELs. And it helps all users, not just a subset. Its also a nice application of Fitt's Law

We're guilty of using guesses/gut feelings when putting a site together. Nielsen reminds us that even a few data points can help make better design decisions.Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
The general guideline is to use relative font sizes that let users resize (if they know how), but to display big...